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Overview Stewardship Resources, Existing and Potential Property A Word about Resources for Indigenous Ministries Camp Huron

RESOURCES

There are two categories of resources, existing and potential. Existing resources include: 

  • Regular parish giving (weekly giving as well as annual or special campaigns);
  • Apportionment funds paid by parishes to support local (Diocesan), national, and global Anglican ministry;
  • Income from investments (the use of which may be restricted or unrestricted) at the individual parish level as well as Diocesan-wide: the Capital Development Trust, the Huron Development Fund, and other restricted and unrestricted trusts. There are few unrestricted Diocesan trusts.

We know that this existing resource base is shrinking and so it essential that we look for other sources of revenue. These Potential resources are those derived from new or untapped revenue streams; in other words, from such things as:

  •  Development (fund-raising) campaigns at the local and Diocesan levels;
  • Planned or legacy giving by individuals (and, possibly, parishes) through wills and life-insurance policies;
  • The sale or development of properties, either outright or in partnership with a third party (municipality, NGO, etc.), with the double objective of

    • funding existing ministry in a particular place in sustainable way

    • increasing the capital of existing investments (CDT, HDF) to enable new ministry and insulate against risk (cushion)

The basic principle is that if the local parish is doing well, the Diocese is doing well, and so most of these Acts and Actions are focussed at the parish level.